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- 9/11/15 Conference: State of the Civil Jury Trial
- Conversation with Associate Justice Sotomayor
- 9/30/16 Conference: Jury Trial of Patent Cases
- Keynote Address
- Scholars Debate: Does the 7th Amendment guarantee a jury trial in patent litigation?
- Summary of Patent Jury Trial Statistics
- Rush to Judgment? Trial Length and Outcomes in Patent Cases
- Judges Roundtable
- Scholars Roundtable
- Practitioners Roundtable on U.S. District Courts and the PTAB
- Forum with Suja Thomas: The Missing American Jury
- Jury Improvement Lunches
- 10/27/16 Dallas Jury Improvement Lunch
- 2/9/17 Houston Jury Improvement Lunch
- 4/7/17 Corpus Christi Jury Improvement Lunch
- 4/17/17 Dr. Bull and the Jury’s Role
- 5/3/17 Houston Jury Improvement Lunch
- 5/4/17 Dallas Jury Improvement Lunch
- 10/25/17 Boston Jury Improvement Lunch
- 11/1/2017 Kansas City Jury Improvement Lunch
- 11/2/17 Denver Jury Improvement Lunch
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- Declining State of Juries in America
- Deliberation and Diversity
- Development of Juries in America
- Doctrines to Avoid Jury Trials
- History of the 7th Amendment
- Juries and Damages
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Wherefore, Civil Jury?
The civil jury is in decline.
What are the implications?
In 1962, juries resolved 5.5 percent of federal civil cases; since 2005, the rate has been below one percent. The Civil Jury Project at NYU School of Law examines how the civil jury trial became a vanishing feature of the American legal landscape and looks at the consequence for the legal system and society more broadly.
